Anticipated cost efficiencies associated with technologies, such as virtualization and automation, have driven early interest in cloud computing. Before making the leap to move their critical application workloads to cloud, however, enterprises require a higher threshold of management, support, reliability, and security.

In her session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Claudine Bianchi, Chief Marketing Officer of NaviSite, will examine enterprise requirements for cloud computing, while defining the concept of managed cloud service and how it is going to address those key concerns. She will also introduce NaviSite's Managed Cloud Services offering and discuss their unique resource-based pricing model that provides enterprises flexibility to pay as you go yet gives them full control on predictability on usage of those resources.

Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

The 5th International Cloud Expo is co-located with the 8th International Virtualization Conference & Expo and will be taking place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City with more than 5,000 delegates and over 100 sponsors and exhibitors participating in the conference.

About the Speaker Claudine Bianchi is Chief Marketing Officer of NaviSite, leading its global marketing, positioning and messaging and providing strategic direction for accelerating the growth of NaviSite's brand. She brings to NaviSite more than 20 years experience in technology marketing. Most recently, she was VP of Marketing at MetaCarta, a pioneer in the burgeoning geo-web space, whose technology allows content to be geographically referenced and searched using a map as a filter.

A Rock Star Faculty, Top Keynotes, Sessions, and Top Delegates! Cloud Expo New York will feature 200+ technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.

All main layers of the Cloud ecosystem will be represented in the 5th International Cloud Expo - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications, and they'll all be here to speak, sponsor, exhibit and network this April in New York.

Over 200 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals became part of Cloud Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide.

"Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloud computing' was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, founder and CEO of SYS-CON Events. "Cloud has become synonymous with ‘computing' and ‘software' in two short years, and this event has become the new PC Expo, Comdex, and InternetWorld of our decade. By 2012, more than 50,000 delegates per year will participate in the Cloud Expo."

Sponsorship Opportunities Cloud Expo 2010 East New York City "show prospectus" has shipped. Sponsorship, exhibit, and keynote opportunities can be obtained from Carmen Gonzalez by email at events (at) sys-con.com, or by phone 201 802 3021.

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